[♥Bobbi٭sMommy♥]

Monica~~
Just a quick reply.... I read your article with great interest...

I found something else that worked for me.. I hope it helps a bit anyway.. to those who are having issues.

I was having trouble with a scream from Bobbi-Gray. I was not sure if it was going to turn into screaming but it was there and it had potential. I have heard this before when I have gone out of the house but did not leave in my car right away... I thought... She might be doing this a great deal when I am gone so I thought I would try and nip it in the bud.

Reading your article, I am doing "all the right things" with her... I am sure I could do better but at least I was able to check off all the do's you put forward.

I read about replacing an undesirable noise, word or whistle with another word or phrase or whistle that is more pleasing. I thought... what the heck, if I positively reinforce this bad scream, I guess it could not be much worse, so I decided to give it a try.

I decided to say, "peek a boo" every time and sometimes more than one time each time she did a scream of any kind. She already plays peek a boo with my hands over my face and says "peek-a-boo , I seeeee you" so I thought it might not be reinventing the wheel.

Within 4 days she was saying peek a boo more often and the scream (which I now think was a call to me) was gone by 50%. That was 2 weeks ago and now calls me 50% of the time by saying "peek a boo"... I am still working on it.. Obviously you cannot do this if you are not home and the scream happens but I am at home most of the time. I wanted to share this with those who have tried everything else.

I don't know if it will work for everyone but I could not read your post and let it go without saying something...